The FUDCon will include two days of hackfests and a day of BarCamp. All days will be located at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), [http://web.mit.edu/history/www/CampusMapBldg51.html Tang Center (E51)], in Cambridge, MA USA.

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Wireless is available at MIT. Use the ESSID "MIT GUEST" and you should be good to go.

|Docs Project || [[User:Kwade|Karsten Wade]] and [[User:Pfrields|Paul W. Frields]] || It's time to kick Docs Project in the tush. All processes should be documented by the time we get to FUDCon; if not, we'll document them where they stand. Then we'll assess, figure out what needs changing, and DO IT. Starting with this list of [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_tasks_during_FUDConF11 tasks]

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|SELinux Policy || [[User:dwalsh|Dan Walsh]] || Writing SELinux policy. Pick your favorite daemon, cgi script or user app, and see if we can write a policy to confine it. I will have a list of daemons that currently do not have SELinux policy in Fedora, if you just want to try to write policy.

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|fedora-event-splash || [[User:Ianweller|Ian Weller]] / [[User:Herlo|Clint Savage]] / [[User:Ynemoy|Yaakov Nemoy]] || Starting work on fedora-event-splash, a future tool for Ambassadors that are at/holding events and would like some additional marketing tools. Join if you're interested. [https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/1026]

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| Giving wikilove || [[User:Ianweller|Ian Weller]] || Fix as many [[:Category:Pages that need love|pages that need love]] as possible. Also other tasks in cooperation with the [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project_tasks_during_FUDConF11 Docs Project tasks]. The Docs Project will be providing one-on-one help with developers and other writers on the wiki for help with cleaning up and gardening their pages at FUDConF11. This is a great opportunity to become part of the great wiki reorganization effort taken on by Docs -- and we could use your help!

| EPEL improvements || [[User:Kevin|Kevin Fenzi]] || Where do we take EPEL from here? How to get involved, update pushes, push for koji inclusion, and more!

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| Push mirroring || [[User:Mdomsch|Matt Domsch]] || Fedora mirrors currently use rsync to poll for updates. We need a push mirror system (ala Debian) to notify mirrors when new content is available to sync. Will discuss how we can get there before F11.

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| Offtrac || [[User:jkeating|Jesse Keating]] || Offtrac is a python API to interfacing with Trac project spaces via xmlrpc. The API could use some work, I'd love to work on getting it integrated with Makefile.common for doing things like 'make tag-request'

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| Automated QA || [[User:jkeating|Jesse Keating]] || It's high time we insert some form of automated QA into our build processes and push processes. I'll be looking for ideas and thoughts on where and what to insert.

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| koji || [[User:ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] || Koji wants to do cool new things but needs to be taught how. This session will be on teaching koji how to play with Secondary Archs, how to take advantage of rpm and its shiny buttons, and other fun things.

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| Secondary Arches || [[User:ausil|Dennis Gilmore]] || Todays secondary arches are nearly at toddler stage and are getting ready to run. But in order to run they need to make sure momma fedora has taght them to do the right things. This session will be going over Secondary arch releng process, setting up koji, making sure you play nice in CVS. generally what to do if you want to keep your fingers, toes and eyebrows.

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| Fedora on XO || SJ Klein, [[User:gdk|gdk]], [[User:Cscott|Scott Ananian]], and whoever else wants to help || You can currently download an SD card image optimized for booting an XO into Fedora 10. This session will hand around demonstration laptops, and the current update and testing process, including where to look for the latest releases. Includes secondary tips and tricks for multibooting from multiple USB and SD devices, and dual-booting small system images from the NAND.

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| [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell GNOME Shell] || [[User:danw|Dan Winship]] || Play around with the new [http://clutter-project.org/ Clutter]- and [http://live.gnome.org/Gjs JavaScript]-based GNOME desktop prototype. We're looking for hackers to implement new effects/tools/workflows, and designers to help clean up the rough spots in both the new and existing design.

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| Makefile.common || [[User:jkeating|Jesse Keating]] || Makefile.common has been built up over many years by many people. It could probably use a few Make gurus to look through it and suggest speed and logic improvements.

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| fedora-devshell || [[User:ynemoy|Yaakov Nemoy]] || fedora-devshell can do be set up to do lots of interesting tricks. come give it a bit of Fedora Love.

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| Multiseat || [[User:Ctyler|Chris Tyler]] || Hack on the [[Features/Multiseat|Multiseat]] features for F11.

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| One Laptop Per Child Deployment Strategies || [[User:anayini|Arjun Nayini]] || Discussion on the best ways to distribute laptops based upon experience with a one to one deployment at a local Boston school.

| Automated Installation Testing || [[User:wwoods|Will Woods]] || It's time to finally hack together a system for doing automated Rawhide install tests, using {{package|cobbler}} and {{package|koan}}.

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| [[Sugar on Fedora: RPMs or .xos?]] || [[User:gdk|gdk]] || Activities in Sugar are delivered as .xo files. Should we be repackaging every .xo as an RPM? If so, what policies do we adopt around maintaining them? If not, why not? Expect a contentious discussion. :)

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| RPMs without root || [[User:Cscott]] || Unix programs used to be installable by non-root users, because few people had root on the large multiuser systems of the day. Then everyone got their own machine, and we forgot how to install a program without root access. Today, it is possible to isolate every running program as its own UNIX user, so it's time to reintroduce the question: how can we install programs with root access? (This discussion may be relevant to gdk's session above.) RPM experts wanted for brainstorming!

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| Rainbow: Colorful Userland Security || [[User:mstone|Michael Stone]] || Ever added an account or created a VM just to run a program you don't quite trust? Ever wished you could easily disable network access for a single program? Come talk about how these and other aspects of "userland security" can be drastically improved, even by unprivileged users, in time for F11.

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| [http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/17/318 dracut] || [[User:katzj|Jeremy Katz]] || Hacking on dracut, a new initramfs tool intended to be usable across distributions. Users of non-Fedora/RHEL boxes especially wanted to help find where the Fedora-isms have crept in!

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|CMS - pick, choose, and install || [[User:Kwade|Karsten Wade]] || A hopefully brief session after lunch to tackle CMS choices for Fedora Docs Project; this choice could be the precursor to wider usage on fedoraproject.org. We'll look at feature sets, try out some demos, then pick one for installation on a publictest server, which should make a good activity for Sunday.

TIME: '''9:00 a.m. SHARP.''' PLEASE try to be on time! All the important scheduling and other information about the sessions takes place between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.

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This will be the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcamp BarCamp] day of presentations, sessions, and talks. Coffee and pastry will be provided in the morning, and lunch will be provided midday. Attendance is free. At the end of the day, there will be a FUDPub.

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There will be a GPG Keysigning at some point on Saturday. See the [http://domsch.com/blog/?p=23 instructions] for how to participate.

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==== BarCamp Sessions with Owners ====

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| State of the Wiki

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| A run-through of new wiki policy and the reasons for following it

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| [[User:Ianweller|Ian Weller]] and anyone else who wants to help

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| Git for Dummies, by Dummies

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| Learning from git masters is wonderful if you can do it. What about learning the simple, getting-started bits from someone who's just good at teaching?

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| [[User:Pfrields | Paul W. Frields]], hopefully with heckling from a git master when he gets lost

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| Write Docs with DocBook XML

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| DocBook XML is by far the preferred documentation method for Linux and FOSS. Some Fedora contributors have written entire books in DocBook! Learn how it works -- it's easier than you think, and more powerful than you imagine.

During the FUDCon Barcamp, many of the presentations will be recorded for audio and video. Much of the audio will be streamed as well. As we get closer to FUDCon, we'll need to coordinate resources and such for recording. If you are interested in helping out, put your name below and what (if any) resource you have to bring along.

[http://flattopjohnnys.com Flat Top Johnny's], from 6:00pm - 10:00pm. FTJ's is a well-regarded pool hall near the FUDCon site. We will provide dinner food and one beverage (beer, wine, or soda) per person, as well as six (6) pool tables reserved for attendees.

To make a reservation, [http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscb-boston-marriott-cambridge/ use this handy link] and select the following:

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* Arrival date: January 8, 2009

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* Departure date: January 11, 2009

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* Group code: '''RSFRSFA'''

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This group code will give you the room rate in question. ''Also feel free to enter your Marriott rewards number if you have one.''

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'''OR''' call +1 800 MARRIOTT to make a reservation at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, using group code '''RSF'''. (Note the difference in the group name if you make your reservation by phone instead of online.)

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'''ALL attendees''' must reserve their own rooms. Room rates are good until ''December 26, 2008''. Information will be forthcoming about how to extend your reservation if needed. If you have any problems making reservations, please email [[User:Pfrields | the organizers]] and include details about the issue you encountered.

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==== Other Hotel Details ====

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One complimentary wireless network access account has been arranged per room.

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We have reserved 5 rooms for the nights of the 7th and the 11th for people who require "shoulder dates." Contact [[User:Pfrields | the organizers]] for more information.

If you'll be there for the weekend, you may find a $15 Charlie Ticket, good for 7 days, to be your best value. Otherwise, the subway is $2 cash and the bus is $1.50 cash each trip. Charlie Tickets are available from the T ticket machines in the baggage claim area of the airport. You may use cash or a credit card to purchase--buy one while you're waiting for your luggage to come off the plane.

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The fastest trip uses a combination of bus and train (you only need one $2 fare from the airport and pay it as you get on the bus)

# Take the Silver Line T bus to South Station. South Station is the last stop.

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# At South Station (do not exit the station) follow the signs to the Red Line Outbound (towards Alewife) and get off at Kendall Square/MIT Station.

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# Go up the stairs, and cross the courtyard and you are at the Marriott.

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=== East Coast Road Trip -- CONFIRMED! ===

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We will rent a van and drive up the east coast of the US. The plan is to leave late on the night of Wednesday the 7th, arrive sometime midday on Thursday the 8th, enjoy an awesome FUDCon, and then return late on the night of Sunday the 11th, depositing people along the way.

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If you are anywhere near the I-85 or I-95 corridor up the East Coast (starting point: Greenville SC), and if you want to hitch a ride, please add yourself to this list. We can accept up to 12 people.

It's time to kick Docs Project in the tush. All processes should be documented by the time we get to FUDCon; if not, we'll document them where they stand. Then we'll assess, figure out what needs changing, and DO IT. Starting with this list of tasks

Writing SELinux policy. Pick your favorite daemon, cgi script or user app, and see if we can write a policy to confine it. I will have a list of daemons that currently do not have SELinux policy in Fedora, if you just want to try to write policy.

Fix as many pages that need love as possible. Also other tasks in cooperation with the Docs Project tasks. The Docs Project will be providing one-on-one help with developers and other writers on the wiki for help with cleaning up and gardening their pages at FUDConF11. This is a great opportunity to become part of the great wiki reorganization effort taken on by Docs -- and we could use your help!

Offtrac is a python API to interfacing with Trac project spaces via xmlrpc. The API could use some work, I'd love to work on getting it integrated with Makefile.common for doing things like 'make tag-request'

Koji wants to do cool new things but needs to be taught how. This session will be on teaching koji how to play with Secondary Archs, how to take advantage of rpm and its shiny buttons, and other fun things.

Todays secondary arches are nearly at toddler stage and are getting ready to run. But in order to run they need to make sure momma fedora has taght them to do the right things. This session will be going over Secondary arch releng process, setting up koji, making sure you play nice in CVS. generally what to do if you want to keep your fingers, toes and eyebrows.

You can currently download an SD card image optimized for booting an XO into Fedora 10. This session will hand around demonstration laptops, and the current update and testing process, including where to look for the latest releases. Includes secondary tips and tricks for multibooting from multiple USB and SD devices, and dual-booting small system images from the NAND.

Play around with the new Clutter- and JavaScript-based GNOME desktop prototype. We're looking for hackers to implement new effects/tools/workflows, and designers to help clean up the rough spots in both the new and existing design.

Activities in Sugar are delivered as .xo files. Should we be repackaging every .xo as an RPM? If so, what policies do we adopt around maintaining them? If not, why not? Expect a contentious discussion. :)

Unix programs used to be installable by non-root users, because few people had root on the large multiuser systems of the day. Then everyone got their own machine, and we forgot how to install a program without root access. Today, it is possible to isolate every running program as its own UNIX user, so it's time to reintroduce the question: how can we install programs with root access? (This discussion may be relevant to gdk's session above.) RPM experts wanted for brainstorming!

Ever added an account or created a VM just to run a program you don't quite trust? Ever wished you could easily disable network access for a single program? Come talk about how these and other aspects of "userland security" can be drastically improved, even by unprivileged users, in time for F11.

A hopefully brief session after lunch to tackle CMS choices for Fedora Docs Project; this choice could be the precursor to wider usage on fedoraproject.org. We'll look at feature sets, try out some demos, then pick one for installation on a publictest server, which should make a good activity for Sunday.

TIME: 9:00 a.m. SHARP. PLEASE try to be on time! All the important scheduling and other information about the sessions takes place between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.

This will be the BarCamp day of presentations, sessions, and talks. Coffee and pastry will be provided in the morning, and lunch will be provided midday. Attendance is free. At the end of the day, there will be a FUDPub.

There will be a GPG Keysigning at some point on Saturday. See the instructions for how to participate.

DocBook XML is by far the preferred documentation method for Linux and FOSS. Some Fedora contributors have written entire books in DocBook! Learn how it works -- it's easier than you think, and more powerful than you imagine.

During the FUDCon Barcamp, many of the presentations will be recorded for audio and video. Much of the audio will be streamed as well. As we get closer to FUDCon, we'll need to coordinate resources and such for recording. If you are interested in helping out, put your name below and what (if any) resource you have to bring along.

Flat Top Johnny's, from 6:00pm - 10:00pm. FTJ's is a well-regarded pool hall near the FUDCon site. We will provide dinner food and one beverage (beer, wine, or soda) per person, as well as six (6) pool tables reserved for attendees.

This group code will give you the room rate in question. Also feel free to enter your Marriott rewards number if you have one.

OR call +1 800 MARRIOTT to make a reservation at the Boston Marriott Cambridge, using group code RSF. (Note the difference in the group name if you make your reservation by phone instead of online.)

ALL attendees must reserve their own rooms. Room rates are good until December 26, 2008. Information will be forthcoming about how to extend your reservation if needed. If you have any problems making reservations, please email the organizers and include details about the issue you encountered.

If you'll be there for the weekend, you may find a $15 Charlie Ticket, good for 7 days, to be your best value. Otherwise, the subway is $2 cash and the bus is $1.50 cash each trip. Charlie Tickets are available from the T ticket machines in the baggage claim area of the airport. You may use cash or a credit card to purchase--buy one while you're waiting for your luggage to come off the plane.

The fastest trip uses a combination of bus and train (you only need one $2 fare from the airport and pay it as you get on the bus)

Leaving the airport terminal, exit baggage claim and find the 'T' bus stop for the Silver Line outside.

Take the Silver Line T bus to South Station. South Station is the last stop.

At South Station (do not exit the station) follow the signs to the Red Line Outbound (towards Alewife) and get off at Kendall Square/MIT Station.

Go up the stairs, and cross the courtyard and you are at the Marriott.

We will rent a van and drive up the east coast of the US. The plan is to leave late on the night of Wednesday the 7th, arrive sometime midday on Thursday the 8th, enjoy an awesome FUDCon, and then return late on the night of Sunday the 11th, depositing people along the way.
If you are anywhere near the I-85 or I-95 corridor up the East Coast (starting point: Greenville SC), and if you want to hitch a ride, please add yourself to this list. We can accept up to 12 people.

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